“In our time, specialists of all kinds are highly overrated. We need more generalists—people who can
provide broad perspectives."
In this era of globalization, science and technology together with rapid social change lead to a complex life where both the positive and negative effects on persons in our society call for a balance between specialists and generalists.
In the present context, Specialists are necessary to gain in-depth knowledge of a particular topic because information and knowledge are so vast and wide-ranging that a single person is not enough to grab all the details of a particular topic. For instance, one might go to a general practitioner for a checkup and the doctor can treat any kind of normal disease. However, when the usual way of treatment does not work or the medicine does not work the way it should, one needs to meet a specialist who can determine the cause of the disease and prescribe accordingly. In case of surgery, a general practitioner is inadequate. Therefore, the patient must go to a surgeon.
In the context of education, a generalist is needed at an earlier stage of the study, when a student starts to learn language, science, history, math etc. A generalist can help to generate an overview among the student which in turn helps the student in their further study. But at a higher level of education when a student starts to learn specific topics such as algebra, arithmetic, anatomy etc. a specialist is needed. A generalist is not sufficient to provide adequate teaching in those fields because a generalist is not taught specific details on those topics. In fact, it is not possible to learn every detail of a topic because of the abundance of knowledge. However, it was convenient in the past as there were few fields of study. But nowadays a generalist can always go to a specialist for any query.
On the other hand, over-specialization may lead to vague conclusions. For example, a specialist in toe-nail might think the whole human body is white. Nobody will hope to determine the whole body by just seeing the toenail. Therefore a generalist is required to present a wholistic view. Again the narrow focus of a “specialist” approach can hamper an individual’s life by limiting one’s views. It can force a person into a pigeonhole at a very early stage of life, therefore compel one to view the world from a very tiny aspect. But a generalist and only a generalist can observe the world from a broader perspective and can present solutions of problems that can be impossible for a specialist to find out.
Because of the nature of the world, it is necessary to have both generalists and specialists in our society. With only the specialist, we might confine ourselves to a narrow boundary and limit our advancement and with only generalists, we will have difficulties stepping up when intense or specific details are needed. Therefore, we need a balance of generalists and specialists.
- Political leaders should withhold information from public 2 66
- Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before it means putting old ideas together in new ways 50
- Weather and local news programs 55
- The following appeared in a letter from a firm providing investment advice for a client Most homes in the northeastern United States where winters are typically cold have traditionally used oil as their major fuel for heating Last heating season that regi 58
- Some people believe that scientific discoveries have given us a much better understanding of the world around us Others believe that science has revealed to us that the world is infinitely more complex than we ever realized 83
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 224, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... whole body by just seeing the toenail. Therefore a generalist is required to present a w...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, however, if, may, so, therefore, for example, for instance, in fact, kind of, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2350.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 479.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90605427975 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67825486995 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04273142589 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492693110647 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 765.0 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 60.000679973 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.9166666667 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9583333333 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08333333333 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.83258426966 290% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24517035605 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0633408264175 0.0831039109588 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0574879443127 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123329917677 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0455404410714 0.0667264976115 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 11.8971910112 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.